Originally Posted by lemon
I personally find that flexi really enhances trickster's strengths (dodging, sniping, being annoying as ####).
The usual trickster snipe involves a bunch of actions - turning around the corner, shooting, reversing, turning back and warping to safety. Turning takes alot of time and flexi really cuts down on that, allowing much safer and faster snipe shots.
Randa is already the most agile plane in the game, if you really need the added effects of flexi wings to turn easier, you have a problem. Turning does not take a lot of time at all, especially if you warp as you turn (which is why ultracap is so much better, ldo). You might be able to turn faster than an HA randa can but imo HA randas are more accurate with their shots because they have more time to align with their target. But honestly, safety isn't a problem with randa. You can be on the enemy side with almost 0 health and get through enemies alive with HA.
Your plane becomes significantly faster overall because you lose less speed on hard turns. Just try flying around with it, it's really noticeable.
Yes, it does become faster, but if randa is already the fastest plane in the game when you're warping, why do you need it any further? This isn't nascar.
You conserve energy because instead of reversing you get the option to just turn around. For example you can spin around and bounce around the corner, greatly restricting opposing bomb carrier.
Turning completely around still takes a lot of time even with flexi wings, it's much quicker to just reverse 180. It's not like it takes all of your energy just to reverse.
Flexi is great at point-blank range fights. Reduced energy consumption and more precise and faster movements effectively increase your damage in comparison to HA tricks. It's especially noticeable against biplanes, you can just run circles around them.
You can do the same. In. HA. Also flexi wings will get completely wrecked by an HA trick simply because of your lessened health. If you try and run circles around him he's just going to reverse and own your ass like grass. Also, why do you even care about biplanes? 1. They're easy as **** to kill and 2. there's like 3 in the entire game. The point is that you can do all of this with HA simply because randa is already so flexible and fast, so why lessen your health so greatly for a few small improvements?
Obviously HA has the huge benefit of increased health and without it the plane is really fragile (you can get warpshotted, bombers and hcs kill you in two hits, etc). I think it ultimately depends on what you want to do with the plane - I view the trickster as a harrassing plane, so enganging head on is not something I want to do anyways, thus I choose a perk that makes my plane better at harrassment. Also if you want to fight head on might as well just go lazer because it's outright better than trickster in those situations.
Did you honestly say that laser is better than trickster? Get out of here. Right now. GO. You can do SO much more with trickster, even head on. Laser is an easy killing plane, but you have to get relatively close and within their line of fire. With trickster you can start shooting from far away and move in for the kills.
Anyways, what I want to say with this is that flexi should be considered as an alternative. This game is basically about positioning your plane and flexi makes that easier. The best plane in the game is the most mobile one, etc etc.. I mean right now more people use repair than flexi, and repair is just trash.
agreed that repair is trash, but flexi is hardly a good alternative.
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01-10-2010, 09:41 PM
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